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Letters Patent No. `113,619, dated April 11, 18,71.

IMPRQVEMENT IN PERFUMINGAND DlslNFEc'i'iNG APPARATUS.

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To all whom 'it 'may conce/rn Be it known that I, OT'ro BOLDEMANN, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and improved lPerfuu'ning and Disin- 4containing a quantity of alcohol or other liquid con` taining hydrogen, with which the perfnming disinfecting or'other liquid to he evaporated is mixed.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of one arrangement of apparatus which I use in `carrying out my invention.

Figure 2 is a top view.

A is a small vessel, preferably a glass tumbler, with a removable cover, B, having one or more holes, O, through it, on`which is a cover, D, also withV holes, which may be adjusted by turning around the vertical axis so as to open or close the holes C.

Eis the metallic platinum burner, which, for the salie of a beautiful appearance when illuminated, I `make an outline in the 'shape of any beautiful form, as a bird, animal, or the like it is suspended by `a wire, Ior in any other Way, from a rod, F, extending from'above the cover to a suitable point below, as shown; orit may be suspended altogether above the vessel, in which case a low vessel will be used for holding the liquid aud the burner will be in a globe above.

The alcohol or other liquid, together with the perfume or disinfectant slbstance-say, carbolic acid-are placed in the vessel, the burner is then heated in a gas or other tlame and placed in the vessel; as shown. Whereupon the hydrogen contained in the liquid is condensed on the snrface'of thel platinum, combining with the oxygen of the air, forming water, and cva-porat'ing immediately, the intensity of the combination of the two gases keeping the platinum red hot, so that an illuminated gure of any kind represented by the outline of the burner may be seen through the glass, thereby making an apparatus, which, besides being useful, may be a pleasing toy.

The cover is turned so as'toclose the holes G afterY the heated burner is put in until suihcient heat is obtained; `it is then opened 'and the product of the combustionallowed to escape. I

I prefer to employa double valvethat is, one with two holes-by which Vthe circulation of the air in the vessel is facilitated andthe combustion increased.

Having thus described my invention,

I claimas new and desire to secure by Letters p Patentv The improved mode of" evaporating perfnming, disp infecting, or other liquidsby means ci' a metallic platinum burner, suspended in or above a vessel containing the liquid mixed with alcohol or other liquid con- 4 Witnesses:

Guo. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

